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Private Nuisance / Flooding

05/01/1981 - $565,000.00

Thompson v. Central of Georgia Railroad, Ray M. Wright, Inc. and Columbus, Georgia Consolidated Government, State Court of Muscogee County, Georgia. Defendant developer caused increased runoff from upstream developments, defendant city allowed that unrestricted development, and defendant railroad railed to increase size of downstream culverts under tracts despite notice of flooding caused by inadequate culverts.

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